Honest question. Do you think the GNOME project is as healthy today as it was, say, 4 years ago? Benjamin Otte explains that no, it isn't. GNOME lacks developers, goals, mindshare and users. The situation as he describes it, is a lot more dire than I personally thought.

I also enjoy programming against the bare minimal, lowest-common-denominator set of APIs that aren't quite perfectly supported across platforms (and no real efforts are being made today to make that happen).